Mink release misguided

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A group calling itself Willow Pond Mink Freedom Movement has claimed responsibility for the release of 500 mink from a Brant-area farm.

What were they thinking? They have every right to their opinions and their opinions only. What they did was truly despicable (not to mention criminal) and they have no conscious as to the well-being of the mink they released.

There is a misguided notion that the animals are being freed to live happily ever after to frolic in the surrounding woodlands. But babies, who no longer have their mothers to tend to them, most certainly will die. And others have been sentenced to a certain death. And not the kind of humane death that would happen at a responsible breeder facility from which they were released.

The perpetrators have upset the ecosystem and put at risk other farm animals and animals in the wild. And they jeopardized the livelihoods of farmers. They had no right to do what they did.

I totally get that they are opposed to mink farms and mink coats. But this is a multimillion dollar industry in Canada and it helps our economy.

There are far better ways to get your message heard than committing a criminal act and boasting that you are responsible. You just lost respect for your alleged freedom movement.

But I guess you can't enlighten the stupid and totally misguided and misinformed.

Jan Wolff

Brantford

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